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Faculty position for MS in Analytics program

2012-03-23T18:09:48.625Z

The Univ. of San Francisco announced the opening of a faculty position for the new MS in Analytics program:

https://www.usfjobs.com/postings/628

USF launches new MS in Analytics program

2012-03-01T18:59:23.301Z

This is a new multidisciplinary MS analytics graduate program offered jointly by the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Management. It focuses on the mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques needed to make the data driven decisions that are central to effective business strategies. The program covers techniques and approaches from statistics, applied mathematics, data mining and machine learning, econometrics and risk analysis, and operations research.

Spring 2012 Graduate student orientation

2012-01-11T18:11:19.760Z

All incoming graduate students are required to attend the orientation at 1pm on Sunday January 22 in HR235, our main classroom on the main floor of Harney science Center. We will discuss a lot of important topics and will register you for classes. Be advised that you will be given a very short Java quiz.

CS NIGHT IS THURSDAY DEC 8

2011-12-08T05:07:52.325Z

The 10th Annual CS Night will be held on Thursday, December 8, 2011 in the Harney Science Center, room 235.

Schedule

5:00pm: Friends and Alumni Reception (Kalmonovitz Hall 180/183)
6:30pm: Posters and Demonstrations of students work, food and drink, Harney 2nd floor
7:30pm: Keynote presentation from Alfred Chuang, USF CS Alum and CEO of Magnet Software
8:00pm: Lightning talks from top projects and announcement of winners

The evening will feature:
* Keynote from Alfred Chuang, USF CS Alum and CEO of Magnet Software
* The 1st annual Project and App Contest with student posters and demonstrations.
* A chance to see old friends and meet new ones

Alumni Parking in Hayes-Healy Garage

What's happening in the CS Dept presentation movie clips

Sriram Sankar speaking at USF CS department

2011-11-28T23:22:10.397Z

Sriram Sankar will be speaking at my web systems and algorithms course on Wednesday, November 30 at 2:15pm in HR232 (the big auditorium). His title is "Real-World Experiences with Search Engines". Sriram definitely knows what he's talking about as he worked at Google Search and is currently lead ranking guy at Facebook Search. Sriram did his PhD at Stanford University and is the author of JavaCC, a competing parser generator to ANTLR. :)

All students and faculty are welcome to attend the talk

CS Night 2011 is Dec. 8!

2011-10-26T18:16:10.355Z

Dear Alums, Students, and Friends of the USF Computer Science Department,

The 10th Annual CS Night will be held on Thursday, December 8, 2011 in the Harney Science Center, room 235.

The evening will feature:

Keynote Presentation
CS Project and App Contest with student posters and demonstrations.
A chance for everyone to see old friends and meet new ones, including our new faculty members.
Samsung Galaxy Android Tablets to the contest winners!

Schedule

5:00pm: Friends and Alumni Reception
6:30pm: Posters and Demonstrations of students work, food and drink, Harney 2nd floor
7:30pm: Keynote presentation
8:00: Lightning talks from top projects and announcement of winners

Please RSVP directly to csnight@cs.usfca.edu or on the Facebook event page

Details

The event will be held Harney Science Center at the University of San Francisco, in the Harney Lobby, the Dean's Lobby, and in Harney 235

and 232. Here are Directions to USF
and a Campus Map.

Parking is available for Alumni! Please park at the Hayes-Healy Garage where there will be "no citation" in effect. The garage has entrances on Golden Gate Avenue between Roselyn and Tamalpais Terraces

New grad student orientation (Fall 2011)

2011-08-02T20:48:28.583Z

All incoming graduate students are required to attend the orientation at 1pm on Sunday Aug 21 in HR235, our main classroom on the main floor of Harney science Center. We will discuss a lot of important topics and will register you for classes. Be advised that you will be given a very short Java quiz.

USF releases ANTLR 3.4

2011-07-20T22:22:36.710Z

USF Professor Terence Parr released version 3.4 of the ANTLR parser generator. The primary reason for this release is to remove the dependency on ANTLR v2. ANTLR v3.3 and earlier were written using ANTLR v2 grammars and StringTemplate v3, which itself had an ANTLR v2 dependency. See ANTLR 3.4 release notes for more info.

USF App Inventor Students Become App Inventor Teachers

2011-05-11T16:41:47.664Z

No women in computer science? Not so fast! The University of San Francisco’s App Inventor class is helping to encourage more women into the field. These four students, recent A-listers in the USF course, are now helping high school girls learn programming and entrepreneurship in Iridescent’s Technovation Challenge. Jenny Horowitz, Paige Carrington, Julie Cahill, and Melanie Garcia– Way to go!

USF Releases StringTemplate 4.0

2011-03-27T20:03:37.115Z

Professor Parr released 4.0 March 27, 2011 -- it's a complete rewrite as a bytecode interprete and is much cleaner and faster than 3.0. http://www.stringtemplate.org/download.html

CS NIGHT 2010

2010-11-15T23:25:27.869Z

The 9th annual USF Computer Science Night will be held Wednesday, December 8, 2010 in the Harney Science Center, room 235 (Kudlick class room).

The evening will feature:

* A short keynote from Mark Friedman, Director of Google's new visual language, App Inventor for Android

* Posters and demos from USF students of all levels, from freshmen and non-majors to graduate students. Sr./MS project clients include the USF School of Law, Lawerence Berkeley Labs, Yahoo Local, and SnapLogic. You'll also see: XBox games, mobile apps created with Google's App Inventor, Data visualization apps created with Process, and Bioinformatics research.

* A chance for everyone to see old friends and meet new ones, including our new faculty members.

Details

Spring 2011 Graduate student orientation

2011-01-04T18:36:11.962Z

Orientation for the spring 2011 semester is January 23 Sunday at 1pm in HR235, our main classroom. As part of the orientation, we will give you a small set of questions to answer about Java programming. Most incoming students take a software development class (CS212) but those that do very well on the questions can skip CS212. Orientation is mandatory.

CS Night Video

2010-12-14T01:37:23.442Z

Check out this video from last week's CS Night: http://vimeo.com/17784449.

The video was created by Angelo Taylor, CS 107 student.

USF releases ANTLR 3.3

2010-12-04T20:18:36.421Z

Professor Terence Parr released a new version of the ANTLR parser generator Nov 29, 2010. It includes new Ruby and Objective-C targets.

New graduate student orientation Fall 2010

2010-07-30T19:25:02.163Z

All incoming graduate students in the computer science department are required to attend the orientation session Monday August 23rd at 1 PM in Harney Science center room 235. We will discuss courses and students will register at that time. Students will also take a small Java test to determine if they can skip the usual first semester programming course. Please contact professors Parr or Buckwalter with questions.

Great success! Here are some pictures from CS/WS orientation :)

Google App Inventor at USF: The Movie

2010-06-02T22:57:07.637Z

App Inventor at USF

USF student Chris Witte and Professor Wolber are featured in this video produced by the Google App Inventor team. The clip was shown at the SIGCSE Conference on Computer Science Education.

App Inventor for Android Programming Contest

2010-05-20T00:45:23.065Z

The Spring 2010 CS 107 Android Programming Contest was May 18, as nicely chronicled by Brandon Brown and Shawn Calhoun's photos. The Google App Inventor team visited and served as judges. The winners were DroidMuni, a next muni app by Henry Scholz and Max Siegfried and Make it Count, a drinking game that measures your blood alcohol level, by Brittany Turner and Kristen Synowicki. Runners up included Carly Kralj's Android version of Frontline SMS and ParkIt, a car finding app by Hadly Simmons and Jamie DeAraujo. You can download the apps here, and get more info on the contest here.

USF graduates launch image search startup

2010-04-14T22:28:27.303Z

USF graduates Vineet and Monica Agarwall have launched Nachofoto (http://nachofoto.com), a first-ever real-time image search engine that delivers relevant image results in real-time for trending topics and rising search keywords. For more information, take a look at Nachofoto.com or read the Nachofoto whitepaper (http://nachofoto.com/whitepaper).

Inside the Business of Software

2010-03-15T18:45:37.685Z

Matt Androski will be speaking Wednesday March 24, 12:45-1:45 p.m. in HR 232. Matt has a 25-yr executive career in the software industry, including most recently as a VP at Adobe, with prior stints at BEA, Microsoft and others.

New graduate student orientation

2010-01-19T18:37:42.223Z

All incoming grad students (CS/WS) must attend the orientation this coming Sunday, January 24th in hr235. 1:30pm. We will talk about classes and get you registered as well as getting you oriented.

How to get a job workshop

2010-01-19T18:34:58.263Z

Announcing a workshop with Prof. Parr and alumnus Jean Bovet in Kudlick classroom HR235, 2-3:30 Fri Jan 29th. My notes are here.

Parr's "Language Implementation Patterns" book in print

2010-01-08T00:38:59.313Z

You want to use domain-specific languages to make your code simpler and more powerful. But writing parsers, compilers, and interpreters isn’t something you’ve done lately (or ever). ANTLR creator and USF faculty member Terence Parr demystifies it all for you. Pattern by pattern, you’ll learn the key skills you need to implement your own computer languages with this book.

ANTLR 3.2 released

2009-09-24T21:31:54.939Z

Professor Terence Parr announces the ANTLR 3.2 release that includes the new tree pattern matching facility and numerous bug fixes.

Grad orientation

2009-08-17T19:40:56.771Z

New CS and WS students must attend orientation Monday August 24th from 12:00-2:30 in HR235, our main classroom.

Peru Trip a Success!

2009-06-10T23:28:32.042Z

The annual trip to Peru was a great success. Jim Cortez and David Rice completely retooled the computer lab at Collegio Miguel Pro and dramatically increased the internet experience of the students. Lolly Chinn created and taught tutorials, in spanish, and forged amazing friendships with nearly every student at the school-- I have never seen such smiles! And through the persistence and leadership of alums Teresa Win and Alberto Yepez, a major push was made to help teachers integrate technology into the classroom. Two teachers won laptops as part of a contest, five have newly developed teaching units that integrate technology, and terms like Sitios de Google, and computacion de la nube are the new buzz.

Parr announces new "Language Design Patterns" book

2009-06-03T18:38:49.822Z

The new Language Design Patterns is now available in beta! Learn to build configuration file readers, data readers, model-driven code generators, source-to-source translators, source analyzers, and interpreters. You don't need a background in computer science--ANTLR creator Terence Parr demystifies language implementation by breaking it down into the most common design patterns. Pattern by pattern, you'll learn the key skills you need to implement your own computer languages.